Overdependence of the critical infrastructures in the world mostly in the United States has brought a lot difficulty in disaster planning. A recent science and technology analysis on disasters and infrastructure in the current world full of net work indicated how the co-relation between the two is vital. This report was compiled after analyzing the most various forms of infrastructure and disaster.
It outlined two major forms of infrastructure which could not work in depended from which other. They were energy and information technology networks. It also created an insight on the three major forms of disasters. They were (1) technological (blackouts like the national 2003), (2) Intentional (like the 2001 terrorist attacks) and (3) The natural forms of disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes.
It indicated that a disaster attack on infrastructure is strongly felt due to the connection between critical infrastructures. Let s say for example the September 11th attacks on the twin towers. The twin towers were the main servers to many other establishments in terms of energy support and network. This meant that the after the connection was disrupted all the establishments which depended on the twin towers felt the same impact as the twin towers. The 2003 energy surge in the country affected the networked infrastructure greatly. Without energy, most technological appliances cannot perform. That makes the relationship between infrastructures become vital. Natural phenomena like the hurricanes Katrina and recently the Haitian earthquake affects power supply greatly. This makes the recovery and evacuating procedures very devastating.
At the modern world, some infrastructures cannot operate independed from one another, yet disasters will never cease to strike. This calls for project and disaster managers to conduct a complete analysis before commencing a project which require interrelation between various forms of infrastructure.
It outlined two major forms of infrastructure which could not work in depended from which other. They were energy and information technology networks. It also created an insight on the three major forms of disasters. They were (1) technological (blackouts like the national 2003), (2) Intentional (like the 2001 terrorist attacks) and (3) The natural forms of disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes.
It indicated that a disaster attack on infrastructure is strongly felt due to the connection between critical infrastructures. Let s say for example the September 11th attacks on the twin towers. The twin towers were the main servers to many other establishments in terms of energy support and network. This meant that the after the connection was disrupted all the establishments which depended on the twin towers felt the same impact as the twin towers. The 2003 energy surge in the country affected the networked infrastructure greatly. Without energy, most technological appliances cannot perform. That makes the relationship between infrastructures become vital. Natural phenomena like the hurricanes Katrina and recently the Haitian earthquake affects power supply greatly. This makes the recovery and evacuating procedures very devastating.
At the modern world, some infrastructures cannot operate independed from one another, yet disasters will never cease to strike. This calls for project and disaster managers to conduct a complete analysis before commencing a project which require interrelation between various forms of infrastructure.
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